ONE AZERBAIJANI SERVICEMAN DIES, ONE INJURED IN SHELLING INCIDENT
by Sevindzh Abdullayeva and Viktor Shulman
ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 7, 2006 Tuesday
Baku
One Azerbaijani serviceman was killed on Tuesday when positions
of the national army came under fire in the Tertersky district in
western Azerbaijan, spokesman for the republic’s Defense Ministry
Ilgar Verdiyev said.
The fatality was identified as Private Perviz Dzhangirov, 20. The fire
was opened by Armenian armed groups from the neighboring occupied
territories, Verdiyev said, adding that Azerbaijan’s positions in
the Fizulinsky district in the southwest of the country were also
shelled on Tuesday. One serviceman was injured in the incident.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, national army positions in the
Kazakhsky district in the west of the country were shelled. There
were no casualties, according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
A Tuesday report by Itar-Tass correspondent in Yerevan Tigran Liloyan
citing the Armenian Defense Ministry said the Azerbaijani army shelled
border positions of Armenian army units in the Vaiksky, Taushsky and
Idzhevansky districts last night and on Monday.
Armenia did not return fire. There have been no casualties, Armenian
Defense Ministry spokesman Seiran Shakhsuvaryan said.